Gamification can redefine how we deliver curricula and engage students. It gives learners more choice and greater autonomy. It allows learners to fail and start over. Examining how one teacher gamified a humanities course, this session offers practical strategies, suggests tech tools, and allows participants to gamify their their own units.
Allowing us to differentiate instruction and redefine the way we run classrooms, gamification provides diverse challenges to engage students across multiple dimensions (for instance, pace, interest, or ability) and shifts the focusi of assessments to mastery of skills instead of punishment for mistakes. Persistence and leveling up replace fear of failing. In this session, you can learn how to redefine relationships and learning by employing a few user-friendly tech-tools and then build a three-week module for your own gamified course. We’ll save time for reflection and discussion in the last hour of the session.
Many schools focus on what replicates the classroom digitally, but success comes from adopting new digital techniques as a teaching tool, one that assists a teacher to teach and drives higher levels of progress ownership in students. Studies prove that the adoption of technologies which do not disrupt the process of learning but accelerate it, bring greater student focus, freeing the teachers to deliver new levels of personal learning to each student. More importantly these technologies aren’t replacing teachers themselves, but giving them specific super powers. Today, the question should not be why would we use these technologies in our approach to a curriculum, or should we change our practices in the classroom, but what teaching super power do you want your teachers to use for your students?
If you pre-registered for this tour, you have been added in Sched. Currently, this tour is full, but you may choose to be added to the waitlist. For a full schedule and contact info, check here.
This tour includes:
St. Matthew's Parish School
Village School
Palisdes Charter High School
There will be a stop for a lunch break (on your own) in an area with several options.
If you pre-registered for this tour, you have been added in Sched. Currently, this tour is full, but you may choose to be added to the waitlist.
This tour includes:
Marlborough School